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For those that have previously had a c-section...

mrsjrmillermrsjrmiller
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This may seem like a silly question coming from someone who had a c-section before but mine was not typical.... I had my son at 27 weeks, the NICU staff was in the room and he was intubated and rushed out. I barely saw him...

Anyway, what is it typically like when you have a c-section?  I know you cannot really hold the baby immediately afterward because your getting sewn up etc, but does DH hold the baby?  Where does the baby go?  What about recovery?  I went into this random room for a few hours and they pushed on my belly (hurt like crazy) then to my hospital room but if DS had not have been in the NICU would he have been with me?

I am (trying not to get my hopes up) thinking that I may actually have a non-NICU baby and wondering what it would be like!!

 

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Re: For those that have previously had a c-section...

  • Mommy2GavMommy2Gav
    I am interested in these answers as well...
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  • AggieDeeAggieDee

    They were checking his vitals while I was being stitched up and then took him down to the nursery for a weigh in and all that good stuff.

    Once I was done being stitched up, they wheeled me into the recovery room and brought DS to me to try breastfeeding.  An LC actually is the one that brought him over to show me the ropes.  After he was done feeding, they took him back to the nursery for his first bath, etc and I went to my post partum room.  They brought him back to me after a couple of hours.

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  • SouthernBellelovesaYankeeSouthernBellelovesaYankee

    From what I can remember, they checked him, cleaned him, and wrapped him up. FI brought him over to me, they let me touch him and then he was taken to the nursery.

    After I was stiched up they wheeled me to recovery and FI was in there with Dillon and I got to try BF'ing.

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  • esposa38esposa38 member
    My memory is kind of blurry, but from what I remember... they got him out, cut the cord and held him up for us to see (and yelled, "he's a boy!" bc/ we were waiting to be surprised); DH was up by my head the whole time they were doing the surgery.  Then they took the baby to I guess wash/weigh/ whatever, and gave him right back to DH to hold.  DH was back by my head holding him in what seemed like a very short time while they were stitching me up and all.  Then we were all in a recovery room for what seemed like a very long time, and I could hold him then bc/ they put my cot into a more upright position.  I think we had to wait there until I could move my legs again? or maybe they were just waiting for a room to be ready? I don't remember, really.  Then we went up to our room and that was that.  He was pretty much with us (ie, one of us was holding him) the whole time except when they were doing their thing, and that was in the same room as we were.
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  • karin&benkarin&ben

    I guess it depends on your hospital. I can give two examples out of my 4 c-sections. The beginning part is pretty much the same for both, assuming there are no complications of Mom or baby.

    Baby delivered, sometimes a quick peek at baby, while they work on you (placenta stichting etc) they check the baby, do their thing, Dad gets to watch, take pics, then he gets to hold baby, that is when you can really look. On one they even placed baby on me while I was on table because DH was so excited and talking to everyone, I couldn't get a look at baby and the nurse grabbed him from my DH and gave him to me, lol.

    #1 Baby goes to nursery, Mom goes to recovery room. One hospital brought the  baby by right before we were transferred to our room (baby#3), the other brought baby after we I was in my room. (babies #1 & 2)

     #2 Baby is moved into recovery area right before Mom, and you meet up with baby in there. Then right away I was kind of sitting up, and they had us do skin to skin, and start BF. It was so cool, I just got to snuggle with him. We hung out there until I could go to my room, and we all went together. This was with #4, hospital had changed into one of those baby friendly hospitals or whatever, and it was sooo nice. They delay the baths etc that they used to whisk LO's off to the nursery for. I will have the same for this last baby.

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  • QT-KinQT-Kin

    Here is my experience.

    They get baby out show them real quick over the sheet and then take them immeadiately to get checked out (still in the same room) - as long as everything looks good - thenDH got to hold him and bring him next to my head so I could see him.  Then they take him to the nursery for more checking stuff out, bath etc which I got stiched up and sent to recovery.  Once in recovery they brought him to me so I could try to start bfing right away and hold him.

     

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  • beckys96beckys96 member
    DD was cleaned off, then DH went over and took some pics, once they got her wrapped up, DH brought her over for a little bit and sat by me.  While the dr was finishing up DH went with DD and the Ped to the nursery, DH and DD were together the whole time.  Then DH came back to my recovery room while DD stayed under the warmer.  The nurses cleaned me up.  Normally I think they would have brought her in (they normally keep you in that room for 2 hours), but they had someone who needed my room, so I was wheeled to my new room, and DD was brought in and we started BF. 
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  • nseesnsees
    I'm sure hospitals are all different but for us...they got DS out, sang happy birthday while the nurse wiped him off just a little and suctioned.  they brought him over for me and DH to see.  Took him back to clean him up.  DH followed and watched, took pictures.  During that time they were stitching me up.  I could see him the whole time though.  Then they had me hold him as they wheeled us all back to our room.

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